Eternal Current Events: Early Writings by Marker, Chris
Eternal Current Events: Early Writings by Marker, Chris

Eternal Current Events: Early Writings

The first English translation of Chris Marker's early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art. Before...
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Author: Chris Marker
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Language: English
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Eternal Current Events: Early Writings by Marker, Chris

Eternal Current Events: Early Writings

$51.63
Eternal Current Events: Early Writings by Marker, Chris

Eternal Current Events: Early Writings

$51.63
Author: Chris Marker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The first English translation of Chris Marker's early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art.

Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based magazine Esprit from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form, Marker's pieces range from short stories, essays, poems, and reviews to fabricated reportage and invented news affairs, all gemmed with the hallmarks of his style: a blurring of reality and imagination, a wry sense of humor, a sustained political engagement, and, of course, a limitless curiosity for animal life.

Eternal Current Events marks the first time these exemplary works are available in English, published in an adapted facsimile of the original periodical. In these short selections, what one encounters is less a past life before his turn toward cinema than a preamble to his celebrated body of work. Moving images did not replace Marker's production as a writer but were incorporated into it. Before the "imaginary films" there were "imaginary current events"; before the travels through time in La Jet?e there was a bulletin rethinking the psychogeography of the around-the-world trip; and before the musings on a Japanese temple consecrated to cats in Sans Soleil, there was a summary report on the theological implications of the 1952 Parisian Cat Fair. Marker did not just begin his career as a writer, he remained one throughout his life.

Author: Chris Marker
Publisher: Inpatient Press
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781965874004

About the Author
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. He is best known for his films La Jet?e, A Grin Without a Cat, and Sans Soleil.
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